James Gleick (Page 2)

The Discovery of Time

October 14, 2016

What was the "most characteristic feature of the thought" of the early 20th century?

Remembering “Chris Marker”

September 08, 2016

Ben Lerner's appreciation for "Chris Marker, whose name was not 'Chris Marker' ... "

Annals of Internet Porn: 1995

August 26, 2016

[First published in The New York Times Magazine, June 11, 1995, under the headline “This Is Sex?”A version of this essay appears in What Just Happened.] AT FIRST GLANCE, THERE’S a lot of sex on the Internet. Or, not at first glance—nobody can find anything on the Internet at first glance. But if you have […]

Her Majesty Defines Time

June 30, 2016

Removing doubts about the meaning of time is an ambitious goal, but not too ambitious for the Queen and Parliament of Britain in 1880. They enacted the "Statutes (Definition of Time) Act" to settle the matter once and for all. So now we know. Or do we?

Let Twitter Be Twitter

April 12, 2016

These people threaten to destroy one of the internet’s nicest things. Twitter is a happy accident, a fortuity, a quirk.

New Book

March 14, 2016

You could get this book now if you had a time machine. Then again, if you had a time machine you wouldn’t need the book.

Not Negligible After All

February 10, 2016

"Gravity is weak," Feynman said. "In fact, it's damned weak."

We See Ghosts

January 03, 2016

"Ghosts were seen when, for reasons unknown, they inadvertently slipped from their allotted time into the present."

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